Tag: Royal Mail

Spring Global Mail enters the market for international press distribution in Germany

Posted by | Feb 21, 2007 | |

Spring Global Mail is entering the market for cross border press distribution. The new product, called Press Service, enables publishers to send products at more favourable prices than the main postal companies in Germany. In addition, the product contains a large range of services for the preparation of consignments.

The German postal market has a new player in the segment of press distribution. Spring Global Mail is entering the German market for press distribution.

Press Service offers two service levels: Premium and Economy. The rates of the Premium service are clearly more affordable than those of the main postal operator in Germany. The price advantage of the Economy service depends on the weight per item. There is no restriction on the minimum amount of items.

Spring Global Mail carries print products which are either already fully prepared by the customer or material that still requires further fulfilment. In this case Spring Global Mail offers a number of additional services, such as polywrapping, inserting into envelopes, addressing and franking. Spring carries only wrapped consignments due to quality reasons. Consignments are collected free of charge by TNT Express and the mail is distributed in the destination countries by Spring Global Mail’s partners.

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Postcomm reviews Royal Mail application

Posted by | Feb 20, 2007 | |

Postcomm is seeking views on Royal mail’s application to extend its Pricing in Proportion (PiP) framework to Packetpost Returns.

Packetpost Returns is a service that allows packets to be returned from customers with the postage cost being borne by the original sender.

Currently the price per item paid by the original sender is based on the average weight of the mail returned. Royal Mail advised Postcomm that Packetpost Returns was overlooked when it made its original PiP application in August 2003, and proposes that an item returned through this service should be treated and charged as a packet under its Pricing in Proportion framework.

Royal Mail has also requested that Packetpost Returns, consistent with the greater alignment of these prices to those of normal Packetpost, should be included in the same controlled services group as Packetpost1 .

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UK campaigners rally to save post offices

Posted by | Feb 20, 2007 | |

Groups opposed to the closure of post offices are staging a national protest today as part of a campaign to keep open threatened branches. Union leaders, politicians, countryside and pensioners’ organisations will join forces to call on the Government not to press ahead with plans to shut 2,500 offices. The campaign aims to secure the future of the postal network offering a range of government products and services including a Post Office card account. A rally in Westminster will be followed by a lobby of MPs and events across the UK. Gordon Lishman, director general of Age Concern said, ‘We are

pleased that the Government has started to wake up to our concerns about the future of post offices.

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Strike looms over Royal Mail UK pensions move

Posted by | Feb 15, 2007 | |

The Royal Mail’s decision to close its final salary pension scheme to new entrants has drawn a furious reponse from unions and raised the spectre of strike action to oppose the move.

The London Divisional Committee of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) called on the CWU’s Postal Executive to “mobilise the union’s membership to oppose these plans and to build a campaign to ballot the membership of the whole of Royal Mail Group for industrial action.”

It also blasted a proposed share scheme for Royal Mail’s 190,000 employees, worth up to 5,300 stg per worker over five years, as a “backdoor route to privatisation.”

CWU divisional representative Martin Walsh said: “Our members will not tolerate the closing down of the pension scheme and/or the reduction of benefits to any current or future members, and unless Royal Mail group withdraws from its position on pensions or the Phantom share scheme, industrial action looks inevitable.”

Fellow CWU official Mark Palfrey added: “It is our view that the Labour Government has masterminded the unnecessary imposition of competition, backdoor privatisation and the undermining of all Postal services.”

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New deal for BT bill payers at the UK Post Office®

Posted by | Feb 13, 2007 | |

Post Office Ltd and BT have signed a new 5-year deal which allows four million BT customers to continue to benefit from the convenience of paying their phone bill at Post Office® branches.

The agreement will enable BT customers to pay their bill by cash, cheque or debit card at any of the UK’s 14,000 Post Office® branches. Over 94 per cent of the UK population lives within a mile of a Post Office® branch.

Customers can also continue to save towards their quarterly bill by making regular payments using their BT payment card in Post Office® branches too.

Nearly 25 million people visit the Post Office® each week, making over 270 million bill payments every year for a wide range of utilities and local councils. It’s free to pay almost any bill at the Post Office®.

In addition to paying bills, customers can access a wide range of other services at their local Post Office®, such as banking and financial services including free cash access over the counter, travel services including travel insurance, passports and commission-free currency, and mail and postal services.

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